{"id":190379,"date":"2024-10-08T12:18:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T16:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/?post_type=case&p=190379"},"modified":"2024-10-16T12:25:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T16:25:33","slug":"challenging-death-qualification-and-the-death-penalty-in-kansas-kansas-v-fielder","status":"publish","type":"case","link":"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/cases\/challenging-death-qualification-and-the-death-penalty-in-kansas-kansas-v-fielder","title":{"rendered":"Challenging Death Qualification and the Death Penalty in Kansas (Kansas v. 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It discriminates against Black prospective jurors, women, and people of individual faiths that oppose capital punishment.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nOur fight against death qualification is just one piece of our upcoming challenge to Kansas\u2019 use of the death penalty. The 老澳门开奖结果, together with the law firms Hogan Lovells and Ali & Lockwood, Democracy Forward, and the Kansas State Board of Indigents\u2019 Defense Services\u2019 Death Penalty Defense Unit is putting the death penalty on trial in Kansas in a series of hearings beginning in October.","call_to_action":null,"summary":"Death qualification is discriminatory. Echoing a long history of racial bias in the criminal legal system, the practice dictates that to serve on a capital jury, a prospective juror must be willing to impose the death penalty. Those who are unwilling cannot serve. Death qualification disproportionately excludes Black people, women, and those of religious faith, who are all groups more likely to oppose the death penalty.\r\n\r\nBy systemically barring Black community members from fully participating in jury service, death qualification violates the rights of both the accused and the prospective jurors alike. The removal of Black voices from capital juries unjustly skews juries to be whiter, less likely to consider all of the evidence, and more prone to conviction, perpetuating the legacy of all-white juries that have historically condemned Black individuals to death.\r\n\r\nIn Kansas, there is an undeniable line connecting the state\u2019s violent struggles over slavery and history of racial terror to its modern administration of the death penalty. When lynching became less publicly and politically acceptable, new forms of racialized violence emerged, including police brutality and the death penalty. As was the case with lynching, the death penalty in Kansas is applied disproportionately against Black men, especially when a white woman is the victim. The longstanding harm and racial violence inflicted on Black Kansans has left deep distrust in the criminal legal system, including skepticism of and opposition to the death penalty.\r\n\r\nSince Black Kansans are more likely to disagree with capital punishment, they are disproportionately excluded from serving on capital juries. Without representation on juries, the racist cycle continues: death qualification leads to the exclusion of Black jurors and whitewashed juries that disproportionately sentence Black people to death, which prompts further distrust in the racist system. Ending death qualification is a step towards overcoming this shameful history of exclusion and injustice.\r\n\r\nDeath qualification is just one piece of the failed death penalty in Kansas that we are challenging. Every aspect of the death penalty, from who gets charged, to who has a fair trial, and to who gets sentenced is infected with racial discrimination. Beyond racial discrimination, the death penalty in Kansas is flawed in a myriad of unconstitutional ways. It fails to protect the innocent, costs taxpayers far more than the alternative, and does not deter crime.\r\n\r\nFor these reasons, the 老澳门开奖结果 and its partners are putting the death penalty on trial in Wyandotte County, Kansas. In a series of hearings beginning on October 28, we will present evidence demonstrating that the death penalty in Kansas is unconstitutional and that death qualification is racially discriminatory and undermines the principles at the core of our legal system.","case_decision":"","featured_case":false,"legal_project":"The Capital Punishment Project (CPP)","date_filed":null,"administration_challenged":"","constitutional_principle":[],"drupal_node_id":"","legal_documents":[{"court":2303,"documents":[{"document_options":"document","document":190847,"title":"Motion Challenging Capital Punishment in Kansas as Unconstitutional Under State and Federal Constitutions","subtitle":"","date_filed":null,"drupal_node_id":"","slug":"","child_documents":null},{"document_options":"document","document":190849,"title":"Motion Challenging Death Qualification as Unconstitutional Under State and Federal Constitutions","subtitle":"","date_filed":null,"drupal_node_id":"","slug":"","child_documents":null}]}],"plaintiffs":"","co-counsel":"","press_releases_related_to_cases":[190824],"related_content_cases":[106695,51145],"related_content_documents":"","related_content_publications":""},"yoast_head":"\nChallenging Death Qualification and the Death Penalty in Kansas (Kansas v. 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